Bjorn Behrendt (EdListen) has been at 6 events

This week on @118107774336806445295 Education IT Coordinator, and fellow podcaster, @108865324810272946151 joins us to discuss Chrome in education. With so many school districts starting to use Chrome we talk to Bjorn about these transitions and how it all works.
Also in the news this week the video debuting the new @115831017343671643958 Yoga Latop Chromebook for education just came out, and it is neat.
That and so much more!
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We will also be giving out +1s to the following folks for relaying great news on G+!
@103143843118605044070 for the great link to the Lenovo Yoga Chromebook.
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The #ladygeeks are chatting with @108865324810272946151 about Edlisten and other geeky things. As always we will share updates, tech that works, and our weekly favorite apps or tools! Check back on www.ladygeeks.org for links to everything as well as subscribe to us on iTunes!

What gear, software and services would you purchase if you were starting your first podcast?
Find out what experienced podcasters +David Jackson +Daniel J. Lewis +Jeffrey Bradbury and myself (Ray Ortega) would purchase if we were starting our first show and had the knowledge we now possess after years of producing podcasts.
Based on experience in podcast production, we'll take a mock budget and spend it on what we think are the most valuable items for starting a podcast.
If you're starting your first podcast, thinking about starting a podcast or have been podcasting for years, join us in the chat to discuss where you'd put your money.
Would you spend most of your budget on a microphone or buy something cheaper and invest in software? Should you skip paid hosting and buy a mixer?
We'll find out. Watch live at 9pm EST on this G+ Event page (the video player will appear at the top when the episode goes live. Refresh your page if you don't see it).
This is event the rescheduled event that was set to air on Monday the 15th.

This 45 min webinar will provide an overview of the new Chromebook for Education devices just launched last week (Lenovo ThinkPad Chromebook and the Acer C7 Chromebook) as well as recent updates to the Chrome OS, management console, and Chrome web store.

"Google Drive & Web Apps: A Match Made in the Cloud" - Join me live today at 7pm (EST) for this #eduonair Hangout On Air.
Note: An unlimited number of participants can watch the session live via the Hangout On Air. However, if you would like to join me and be part of the session Hangout, please post a comment below explaining why you would like to be in the session Hangout. (up to 9 spots available)
Session Description: "Google Drive & Web Apps: A Match Made in the Cloud" - Discover the power of Google Drive and the amazing web applications available in the Chrome Web Store. During this EDU on Air session we will take a deep dive on SlideRocket, Lucid Chart, Hojoki, WeVideo, plus several more! Learn how to unlock the true potential of Google Drive.
The hangout on air for this session will stream live on my Google+ page at:
https://plus.google.com/102558435170451984144/posts

The 7th Grade class from Trinity Episcopal School-Charlotte will be hosting a live interview on YouTube with Emmy winning producer and director, Linda Midgett @104732473238197630663, discussing her recent documentary, _The Line_. Read more about this powerful documentary on poverty at TheLineMove.com

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Most comments: 17

anyone know of any alternatives to Hapara's Interact. I have found some, but they require the teacher to run it from a windows/mac machine. I would like one that the teacher can run it from their chromebooks. ﻿

Most plusones: 7

In collaboration with +Bjorn Behrendt , pageMover was born! This forms add-on is more than happy to do the heavy lifting when it comes to reorganizing entire pages within a google form. If you've ever had to do that manually, you'll know just how lousy it is. Kind of like moving by yourself.

Fret no longer! pageMover is here to help! It's my first collaborative add-on, and I enjoyed working with Bjorn immensely! You can see more about pageMover at my website (http://www.opensourceteacher.ca/apps-script/page-mover) or on Bjorn's site (https://sites.google.com/site/edlistenscripts/pagemover) which you really should check out, since it's chock full of goodies!﻿___It was great working with +James Petersen​ on this project.

If you've got a spreadsheet with many tabs, it can be hard to reorganize things to keep it functional. That's where my new add-on comes in: tabMover will help you keep things neat'n'tidy in your Google Sheets.﻿

If you've got a spreadsheet with many tabs, it can be hard to reorganize things to keep it functional. That's where my new add-on comes in: tabMover will help you keep things neat'n'tidy in your Google Sheets.﻿___

The goal is to create a better method for submitting PO's. Right now people make a copy of a template, then share it with our business office. The problem is that the document really should be changed to read-only when submitted.

My hope is to create a simple process, for this and other doc templates that the end-user can create a copy of a template, then submit it, and they lose editing rights when submitted. ﻿

Help designing a workflow for add-on.

The goal is to create a better method for submitting PO's. Right now people make a copy of a template, then share it with our business office. The problem is that the document really should be changed to read-only when submitted.

My hope is to create a simple process, for this and other doc templates that the end-user can create a copy of a template, then submit it, and they lose editing rights when submitted. ﻿___

New Feature in CheckItOut add-on. You can now append a timestamp to the checked out item.

http://scripts.edlisten.com/checkitout

Example usage: My school now uses CheckItOut to track summer building sign-in/out, this allows people to sing-in/out from anywhere in the building and it is easy to know if it is safe to set the alarm. Appending the timestamp makes it easy to know if someone forgot to sign out from the day before. ﻿

New Feature in CheckItOut add-on. You can now append a timestamp to the checked out item.

http://scripts.edlisten.com/checkitout

Example usage: My school now uses CheckItOut to track summer building sign-in/out, this allows people to sing-in/out from anywhere in the building and it is easy to know if it is safe to set the alarm. Appending the timestamp makes it easy to know if someone forgot to sign out from the day before. ﻿___

New Feature in CheckItOut add-on. You can now append a timestamp to the checked out item.

http://scripts.edlisten.com/checkitout

Example usage: My school now uses CheckItOut to track summer building sign-in/out, this allows people to sing-in/out from anywhere in the building and it is easy to know if it is safe to set the alarm. Appending the timestamp makes it easy to know if someone forgot to sign out from the day before. ﻿

New Feature in CheckItOut add-on. You can now append a timestamp to the checked out item.

http://scripts.edlisten.com/checkitout

Example usage: My school now uses CheckItOut to track summer building sign-in/out, this allows people to sing-in/out from anywhere in the building and it is easy to know if it is safe to set the alarm. Appending the timestamp makes it easy to know if someone forgot to sign out from the day before. ﻿___

New Feature in CheckItOut add-on. You can now append a timestamp to the checked out item.

http://scripts.edlisten.com/checkitout

Example usage: My school now uses CheckItOut to track summer building sign-in/out, this allows people to sing-in/out from anywhere in the building and it is easy to know if it is safe to set the alarm. Appending the timestamp makes it easy to know if someone forgot to sign out from the day before. ﻿

New Feature in CheckItOut add-on. You can now append a timestamp to the checked out item.

http://scripts.edlisten.com/checkitout

Example usage: My school now uses CheckItOut to track summer building sign-in/out, this allows people to sing-in/out from anywhere in the building and it is easy to know if it is safe to set the alarm. Appending the timestamp makes it easy to know if someone forgot to sign out from the day before. ﻿___

I'm pleased to announce that my new Google Sheets Add-on: Essay Metrics is now live! https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/essay-metrics/ocfkjkekmadhpceihbcndokchkdmjagj?utm_source=permalink

Essay metrics allows users to get detailed file metrics from Google Docs in their Drive. The information can be from single files, whole folders or from assignments set in Google Classroom.

At a glance, on one spreadsheet, you can see reading age, connective counts, sentences that start without capital letters an much more. You can even set your own keywords and get a count of these in each Doc!

As a Maths teacher, I've been benefiting from computer assisted marking and feedback for years. I've always wanted to be able to support teachers in subjects which require longer answers, and I feel that this is a really good step in the right direction. I hope that teachers can find use of this to check drafts of student work and reduce their marking load and improve efficiency!

As ever, I always welcome your suggestions and comments. I hope people find this useful!﻿___+Chris Pariseau​

The incident of a student’s hands being closed inside of a device by another student is an act of vandalism called “chroming.” In order to proceed with this claim, we will need a vandalism report to be submitted.

Ummmm..... That is not chroming, chroming is putting a shinny mirror like coding on metal. That is called being stupid, and if I had to make a report for all acts of stupidity, ... Well let's just say "Here's your sign".﻿

The incident of a student’s hands being closed inside of a device by another student is an act of vandalism called “chroming.” In order to proceed with this claim, we will need a vandalism report to be submitted.

Ummmm..... That is not chroming, chroming is putting a shinny mirror like coding on metal. That is called being stupid, and if I had to make a report for all acts of stupidity, ... Well let's just say "Here's your sign".﻿___

Can I run the onEdit function as the owner of the document, and not the person editing the document?

I am working on a feature of CheckItOut (and separate add-on) that will lock the cell from being changed once an editor enters some information. I have a working script, but it requires every editor to authorize the script before it will work, which kind-of defeats the purpose of the script.

*I know I can do this if the script is published to the web, but I would like to do it as an add-on also.﻿

Can I run the onEdit function as the owner of the document, and not the person editing the document?

I am working on a feature of CheckItOut (and separate add-on) that will lock the cell from being changed once an editor enters some information. I have a working script, but it requires every editor to authorize the script before it will work, which kind-of defeats the purpose of the script.

*I know I can do this if the script is published to the web, but I would like to do it as an add-on also.﻿___

anyone know of any alternatives to Hapara's Interact. I have found some, but they require the teacher to run it from a windows/mac machine. I would like one that the teacher can run it from their chromebooks. ﻿

anyone know of any alternatives to Hapara's Interact. I have found some, but they require the teacher to run it from a windows/mac machine. I would like one that the teacher can run it from their chromebooks. ﻿___

Simply Send Form Add-on Beta. This add-on allows you to simply send a notification using a filed from the form or to a specified recipient. You can even choose to include the form results in the email.

This add-on is in beta, so feedback is appreciated.

http://scripts.edlisten.com/simply-send﻿

Simply Send Form Add-on Beta. This add-on allows you to simply send a notification using a filed from the form or to a specified recipient. You can even choose to include the form results in the email.

Simply Send Form Add-on Beta. This add-on allows you to simply send a notification using a filed from the form or to a specified recipient. You can even choose to include the form results in the email.

This add-on is in beta, so feedback is appreciated.

http://scripts.edlisten.com/simply-send﻿

Simply Send Form Add-on Beta. This add-on allows you to simply send a notification using a filed from the form or to a specified recipient. You can even choose to include the form results in the email.

Does anyone have a good solution for dealing with sanctimonious Form Submission? Choice Eliminator, and CheckItOut both have a problem that they will fail or work unreliably if a 2nd submission happens before the first one has time to finish.

I have done the lock, but that still doesn't help, I have done the shut off the form temporarly, but gets really confusing to the users.

Ideally onFormSubmit would happen pre-submission and us developers could submit if everything checked out, Or a que process where it would not let the form submit until the previous one is completed (but that is wishful thinking).﻿

Does anyone have a good solution for dealing with sanctimonious Form Submission? Choice Eliminator, and CheckItOut both have a problem that they will fail or work unreliably if a 2nd submission happens before the first one has time to finish.

I have done the lock, but that still doesn't help, I have done the shut off the form temporarly, but gets really confusing to the users.

Ideally onFormSubmit would happen pre-submission and us developers could submit if everything checked out, Or a que process where it would not let the form submit until the previous one is completed (but that is wishful thinking).﻿___

1. Should be available now in the marketplace so that google admins can deploy it to their domain if they so choose. 2. Now has the option for checking out via Text box, which is great for when Barcodes are used to check out.

Thanks +Sean Beavers for the idea, please let me know how it works out.﻿

Just published an update to CheckItOut

1. Should be available now in the marketplace so that google admins can deploy it to their domain if they so choose. 2. Now has the option for checking out via Text box, which is great for when Barcodes are used to check out.

Thanks +Sean Beavers for the idea, please let me know how it works out.﻿___

1. Should be available now in the marketplace so that google admins can deploy it to their domain if they so choose. 2. Now has the option for checking out via Text box, which is great for when Barcodes are used to check out.

Thanks +Sean Beavers for the idea, please let me know how it works out.﻿

Just published an update to CheckItOut

1. Should be available now in the marketplace so that google admins can deploy it to their domain if they so choose. 2. Now has the option for checking out via Text box, which is great for when Barcodes are used to check out.

Thanks +Sean Beavers for the idea, please let me know how it works out.﻿___

I think I'm getting over my Apple addiction. The clasp opened when I was taking my hand out of my pants pocket. Apple wants $229 to fix a $350 watch. What a screw. ﻿___Looks like every student owed iPhone I have seen.

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